My projects often start off as a foray into my curiosity, based on my desire to learn something or feed into my other interests, particularly with photography and science.
From building a folding chair or plant box, or using a mobile CT scanner on my groceries, turning a WWII pillbox into a camera obscura, or repurposing badger excavated bottles into lightbulbs – I’m always on the look out for new and interesting ideas.
Lung Tonic
What next to do with my bottle collection after the bottle chandelier? I have a fish tank from a slit scan experiment and some … more
Lego Rotating UV Laser
Experimental performance art photography with laser and technic lego assembly In the year 1BC (Before Coronavirus) I bought a box of technic lego from … more
Fractal Video performance art
At the ‘Squash and Stretch Performance Art festival, Headington Hall, Oxford. May 2018 The ‘Squash & Stretch’ Performance Art Festival was organised by Veronica … more
Ruskin Workshops
The first workshop explored space and movement using a sheet of laser light as a canvas and fluorescent materials as a brush. Different effects … more
Bicycle Sculpture
The Oxford Big Green Day Out 10th June 2017 Commissioned by the Oxford City COuncil and Broad Street, Oxford, 10th June 2017 Sculpture at … more
“Not to be Taken”
Bottle Bulb chandelier installed at Tap Social LED lighting installation constructed from found pre-war glassware, bicycle wheel, barbecue lid, gear cassette and gooseneck conduit. … more
Psychedelic Circus at The Cellar
The Psychedelic Circus at The Cellar, Oxford was a wonderfully eclectic event organised by Dot and Maya, which enabled me to showcase my fractal … more
Pillbox Camera Obscura
When I first visited a pillbox along the Thames at Appleton (OSGB grid reference SP 413011) I noticed that the view was being very … more
Fractal Video Feedback
For the VIDEOVADA event I wanted to create video fractal feedback effects. Video feedback happens when you point a video camera at a screen which … more
Bottle Bulb
For information about my bottle chandelier in Tap Social please go to my bottle chandelier page here. It’s about time I revealed my hoarding of … more
RGB laser line generator
I have been using a 40mW red laser to take photos here and here and in the Oxford Times here. But the whole redness of it … more
Nixie Matrix
After considerable deliberation I ordered 20 IVLM1-1/7 nixie matrix tubes from Ukraine. These are glass tubes with 7 phosphor spots, each spot independently illuminatable. I … more
Fractal photocopy
Simple experiment with feeding rotated copies back into the feed tray. 9 iterations of flower picture: This ‘fern’ was cut out … more
Finished the Folding Stool!
After a long deliberation with the stool held together with screws, I decided to go for the wooden dowels and glue option. Foam board … more
OVADA warehouse sketchup
I measured up the OVADA warehouse for this model and textured it with photographs of the surfaces in Sketchup. Thanks to Niko from Bambino … more
CT scans
Vegetable CT Scans I was just minding my own business on the way back from the supermarket when I chanced across a mobile CT … more
Paper Folding
After exploring a few paper folding techniques from Paul Jackson’s book “Folding Techniques for Designers” I decided to make a light shade from one … more
Schleiren Photography
These photographs are made using 2 mirrors with a 60 inch focal length and a point light source with red and blue filters on … more
Pinhole SLR photography
Been having unattainable fantasies about what lenses I want for my camera. Do I want a 500mm telephoto? a top of the range tilt … more
Sheep Trails
These drawings are created from a sheep trail simulator. The light and dark areas in an image represented the abundance of grass, and the … more
Exploding Birthday Cake!
To make the ultimate birthday cake for Pat’s 70th, Roger, Alan and Ped conspired to create a cake with a difference… Firstly we experimented … more
Oxford Fisheye View GPS Drawing
GPS data from tracks around Oxford over a three year period and projected into a 180° fisheye view. The tangle of lines at the … more
The World’s Biggest "IF"
This was an attempt to answer the question: “What is the world’s biggest ‘IF’?” The letters for the ‘IF’ are 70 miles tall. The … more
Typewriter Clock
This clock is made from video of the numbers 0-9 typed on an electric typewriter as part of Roger Perkin’s ‘Timekeepers’ project. These were … more
MedStamp Alien
This ‘alien’ was made by turning CAT and PET scan data of a human into a movie and distorting it in AfterEffects. It was … more
Video feedback fractals
Video feedback is made by pointing a video camera at a screen which is displaying it’s own output. You see spirals and circles which … more